Haystack Book Festival

Haystack Book Festival Literary Festival Norfolk, CT
2025 FALL
Sept 20 and Oct 3, 4, & 5

A Walk in the Woods with Mike Zarfos, Sophie Pinkham, and Robert Moor*Sunday, October 4 - 8:00 AMLocation: Great Mountai...
08/27/2026

A Walk in the Woods with Mike Zarfos, Sophie Pinkham, and Robert Moor*

Sunday, October 4 - 8:00 AM

Location: Great Mountain Forest Sugar House, top of Windrow Road.

Registration is required. Limited to 20 people.

📚 Haystack Book Festival Is Coming to Norfolk! 📚We’re excited that Haystack Book Festival will be at the Norfolk Library...
08/26/2026

📚 Haystack Book Festival Is Coming to Norfolk! 📚

We’re excited that Haystack Book Festival will be at the Norfolk Library again this year! Most of the festival’s engaging conversations will take place right here at the library, bringing an incredible lineup of acclaimed authors, historians, journalists, and thinkers to our community.

From fascinating discussions on history and culture to conversations with bestselling authors, there’s something for every book lover to enjoy. 📖✨

Join us for a weekend filled with great books, big ideas, and inspiring conversations!

📍 Norfolk Library
📚 Haystack Book Festival

Stay tuned for the full schedule and details!

08/24/2026

📚 Your ideal Fall weekend! 📚

Come check out the Haystack Book Festival in beautiful Norfolk, CT, October 2–4, 2026! Enjoy fascinating conversations with authors and thinkers, explore new ideas, and spend a fall weekend surrounded by books, culture, and the beauty of Northwest Connecticut. 🍂📖

📍 Norfolk Library
📅 October 2–4, 2026

Learn more and register for events at the Haystack Book Festival.

Join Us for Megan Kate Nelson at the Haystack Book FestivalInventing America—Power and Myth at the Nations EdgesSaturday...
08/24/2026

Join Us for Megan Kate Nelson at the Haystack Book Festival

Inventing America—Power and Myth at the Nations Edges
Saturday, October 3 - 3:00 PM

Born and raised in Colorado, Megan Kate Nelson is a writer and historian now based in Boston, Massachusetts. She has written about US western history, the Civil War, and American culture for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Slate, Time, and Smithsonian Magazine. Nelson earned her BA in history and literature from Harvard University and her PhD in American studies from the University of Iowa. She is the author of Saving Yellowstone; The Three-Cornered War, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Ruin Nation; and Trembling Earth.

📚 Join us at the Haystack Book Festival for an engaging conversation with Megan Kate Nelson and discover the stories behind her acclaimed work.

Join Us for Craig Fehrman at Haystack Book FestivalInventing America—Power and Myth at the Nations EdgesSaturday, Octobe...
08/21/2026

Join Us for Craig Fehrman at Haystack Book Festival

Inventing America—Power and Myth at the Nations Edges
Saturday, October 3 - 3:00 PM

Craig Fehrman, a journalist and historian, spent five years writing and researching This Vast Enterprise. His first book, Author in Chief, was described by Thomas Mallon in The Wall Street Journal as “one of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years.” Fehrman lives in Indiana with his wife and children.

📚 Don’t miss the opportunity to meet Craig Fehrman and hear more about his fascinating work at the Haystack Book Festival!

Inventing America—Power and Myth at the Nations EdgesSaturday, October 3 - 3:00 PMCraig Fehrman, author of This Vast Ent...
08/19/2026

Inventing America—Power and Myth at the Nations Edges

Saturday, October 3 - 3:00 PM

Craig Fehrman, author of This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark in conversation with Megan Kate Nelson, author of The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier

Brendan Gill Lecture—A Conversation with Belle BurdenFriday, October 2 - 6:00 PM⭐️ Registration is Open ⭐️📢 Event Locati...
08/18/2026

Brendan Gill Lecture—A Conversation with Belle Burden

Friday, October 2 - 6:00 PM
⭐️ Registration is Open ⭐️

📢 Event Location Update!

This event has been moved to Infinity Hall. We’re excited to welcome everyone to the new location and look forward to seeing you there!

Please take note of the location change when planning your visit.

https://www.haystackbookfestival.org

📚 Come see these incredible authors at the Haystack Book Festival!Join us for inspiring conversations with acclaimed wri...
08/17/2026

📚 Come see these incredible authors at the Haystack Book Festival!

Join us for inspiring conversations with acclaimed writers, historians, and storytellers as they share their books, ideas, and insights.

Don’t miss the chance to meet the authors, hear their stories, and celebrate the power of literature in a beautiful festival setting.

📍 Haystack Book Festival
📖 Great books. Meaningful conversations. Unforgettable moments.
📅October 2, 3, and 4

📚 Join us at the Haystack Book Festival for a thoughtful conversation with Elizabeth D. Samet, After the Wounds—War, Mem...
08/14/2026

📚 Join us at the Haystack Book Festival for a thoughtful conversation with Elizabeth D. Samet, After the Wounds—War, Memory, and the Search for What Endures

Saturday, October 3 - 1:00 PM

Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America; Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times; and Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898. Samet is the editor of Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers, The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, and World War II Memoirs: Pacific Theater. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, she was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support the research and writing of Looking for the Good War. She is a professor of English at West Point.
📍 Haystack Book Festival
📖 Explore the stories, ideas, and history that shape our world.

📚 Join us at the Haystack Book Festival for an engaging conversation with David Nasaw, After the Wounds—War, Memory, and...
08/13/2026

📚 Join us at the Haystack Book Festival for an engaging conversation with David Nasaw, After the Wounds—War, Memory, and the Search for What Endures

Saturday, October 3 - 1:00 PM

David Nasaw is a historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and bestselling author of The Last Million, named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and History Today, and, according to The Economist, one of the "six must-read books on the Second World War"; The Patriarch, a New York Times Five Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year; Andrew Carnegie, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the New-York Historical Society's American History Book Prize; and The Chief, winner of the Bancroft Prize. He is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and a past president of the Society of American Historians. In 2023, Nasaw was honored by the New York Public Library as a “Library Lion.” His father served in the Army. Corps in Eritrea during World War II.

📍 Haystack Book Festival
📖 Discover the stories behind history’s most influential figures.

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Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 4pm

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